1. A Land Remembered

2. A Land Remembered: Background Info

3. A Land Remembered:

4. You will be working on this collaborative book project in your Language Arts class and your US History class. You will be working on this collaborative book project in your Language Arts class and your US History class. First you will create your journal that you will decorate with your character of your choice: Tobias, Glenda, Emma, Zech, Skillit and Frog or Bonzo. This journal will be written from the character’s perspective and should tell their side of the story. First you will create your journal that you will decorate with your character of your choice: Tobias, Glenda, Emma, Zech, Skillit and Frog or Bonzo. This journal will be written from the character’s perspective and should tell their side of the story.

5. A Land Remembered: You will add an annotated map on the back cover of your journal and use the text to add key points of the map. Include the information in the book, key battles of the Civil War and notes and travels that happen in the story. You will add an annotated map on the back cover of your journal and use the text to add key points of the map. Include the information in the book, key battles of the Civil War and notes and travels that happen in the story. This should be glued to the back inside cover of your character journal. This should be glued to the back inside cover of your character journal.

6. A Land Remembered:

7. You will work in a team to create a project that focuses on one of the following themes: survival, nature, change, loss and racial tension. You must link key events from the text to the theme and explain that connection. You will work in a team to create a project that focuses on one of the following themes: survival, nature, change, loss and racial tension. You must link key events from the text to the theme and explain that connection.

8. Themes in A Land Remembered THEME: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work. Struggle for Survival/ Resilience Struggle for Survival/ Resilience Exploitation of Nature Exploitation of Nature Change Change Loss Loss Racial Tensions Racial Tensions

9. Struggle for Survival/ Resilience The MacIveys move from Georgia to Florida The MacIveys move from Georgia to Florida What did they do for food? What did they do for food? What did others do for food? What did others do for food?

10. Exploitation of Nature Industrial development Industrial development Sol MacIvey’s role Sol MacIvey’s role Viewpoints: Tobias vs. Zech vs. Sol Viewpoints: Tobias vs. Zech vs. Sol Greed Greed

11. Change Changes in characters Changes in characters How things used to be, the “good ole days” How things used to be, the “good ole days” Resistance to change Resistance to change

12. Loss Death Death Nature Nature Time Time

13. Racial Tensions Skillit and the former slave population Skillit and the former slave population Seminole Indians Seminole Indians Tawanda and her community Tawanda and her community

14. Theme Tracking Activity 1. You will be divided into 6 groups and each group will be assigned a theme. 2. You will meet in our theme tracking group three times during the reading of the novel. One third of the way into the reading, then two thirds of the way into the reading and at the very end.

15. Theme Tracking Activity, Cont’d 3. In your groups, you will come up with as many examples from the story, including incidents and quotes, that show the development of your theme. 4. At the end of the novel you will create a pictorial representation of your theme and include the quotes and incidents on the poster tracing the development of the them from beginning to end.

16. Theme Tracking Activity, Cont’d How you will be assessed….. How you will be assessed….. Explain your theme topic. Explain your theme topic. You must include at least three quotes from the book with explanations. You must include at least three quotes from the book with explanations. Make connections of the theme to Florida’s role in the Civil War. Make connections of the theme to Florida’s role in the Civil War. Include one relevant page entry from your journal. Include one relevant page entry from your journal. Summary of key events connected to your theme (minimum of four events). Summary of key events connected to your theme (minimum of four events).